We didn’t want to let this holiday season “passover” without providing a list of some important works on Passover, Easter, and the comparison and connections between the two. Happy holidays and happy reading!

— AJR Editors

Books

Baruch Bokser, Origins of the Seder traces the development of Passover in the Mishnah through later rabbinic texts.

E.P. Sanders, Judaism: Practice and Belief, is one of the best synthetic accounts about the practices of Passover and pilgrimage in the Second Temple period

Helen Bond, "Dating the Death of Jesus: Memory and Religious Imagination", New Testament Studies 59.4 (2013) 461-475, explores the dating of Jesus' death and its connection to Passover through the lens of collective memory.

Haggadot

Joshua Kulp's The Schechter Haggadah brings many important and interesting academic discussions about the Haggadah to one place.

The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination), including essays, notes, and von Pappenheim's fascinating and weird musings on Passover as practiced by Jews and on the Haggadah!

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